Türkiye Soyadları A sourced dictionary of Turkish surnames

SURNAMEEntry 908

Ceylan

Ceylan /dʒejˈɫan/

“gazelle”2

Province lists
91
province top-30s
Letters / syllables
6 / 2
Formation
Plain noun
Vowel harmony
mixed
Contents§1–§10
  1. §1Pronunciation
  2. §2Meaning
  3. §3Root tree
  4. §4Formation & 1934
  5. §5Provinces
  6. §6Notable people
  7. §7As a first name
  8. §8Sources
  9. §9Questions
  10. §10Related

How do you pronounce Ceylan?

Ceylan

IPA /dʒejˈɫan/

The stress usually falls on syllable 2 (marked). In everyday Turkish, stress in surnames varies by speaker and region.

What does the surname Ceylan mean?

The ceylan is the gazelle, slender, large-eyed and very swift. The word reached Turkish from a Mongolic source, which itself goes back to Old Turkic yegren, “reddish” as a horse colour. In Turkish poetry it symbolises beauty and grace, and it is also a female given name.2,3

Ceylan is also an ordinary word in everyday Turkish.

What is Ceylan made of?

Ceylan is a single root: ceylan (gazelle).

Ceylan + root ceylan gazelle MONGOLIC ceylan “gazelle; borrowed from aMongolic source” TURKIC *yegren “Proto-Turkic: reddish(of horses)” Ceylan ceylan root gazelle ceylan MONGOLIC “gazelle; borrowed from aMongolic source” *yegren TURKIC “Proto-Turkic: reddish (ofhorses)”
Ceylan: parts and root words
  • ceylan Mongolic — gazelle; borrowed from a Mongolic source2
  • *yegren Turkic — Proto-Turkic: reddish (of horses)3

How was the name Ceylan formed?

Ceylan belongs to the “plain noun” class of surnames.

Where in Türkiye is Ceylan most common?

Ceylan is outside the national top 30, but it appears in the top-30 lists of 9 provinces; its best rank is 17th in Kırıkkale.1

Adana Adıyaman Afyonkarahisar · rank 24 · 2,677 people Ağrı Amasya · rank 21 · 1,351 people Ankara Antalya Artvin Aydın Balıkesir Bilecik Bingöl Bitlis Bolu Burdur Bursa Çanakkale · rank 29 · 1,739 people Çankırı Çorum · rank 21 · 1,754 people Denizli Diyarbakır Edirne Elazığ Erzincan Erzurum Eskişehir Gaziantep Giresun Gümüşhane Hakkari Hatay Isparta Mersin Istanbul Izmir Kars Kastamonu Kayseri Kırklareli Kırşehir Kocaeli Konya · rank 26 · 7,160 people Kütahya Malatya Manisa Kahramanmaraş Mardin Muğla Muş Nevşehir · rank 28 · 1,046 people Niğde Ordu Rize Sakarya Samsun Siirt Sinop Sivas Tekirdağ Tokat Trabzon Tunceli Şanlıurfa Uşak Van Yozgat · rank 20 · 2,011 people Zonguldak Aksaray Bayburt Karaman · rank 21 · 942 people Kırıkkale · rank 17 · 958 people Batman Şırnak Bartın Ardahan Iğdır Yalova Karabük Kilis Osmaniye Düzce Hover or focus a province · ADNKS 2025
  • In the province top 30 9
  • Not listed
Ceylan: rank by province, 2025 (TÜİK ADNKS, province top-30 lists)
Provinces with the most bearers
#ProvinceRankPeople
01Konya267,160
02Afyonkarahisar242,677
03Yozgat202,011
04Çorum211,754
05Çanakkale291,739
06Amasya211,351

Who are some well-known people named Ceylan?

  1. Nuri Bilge Ceylan actor 1959–
  2. Ebru Ceylan actor 1976–
  3. Ufuk Ceylan association football player 1986–
  4. Bülent Ceylan actor 1976–
  5. Oğuz Ceylan association football player 1990–
  6. Turan Ceylan amateur wrestler 1968–
  7. Ebru Ceylan volleyball player 1987–
  8. Fatih Ceylan association football player 1980–

People surnamed Ceylan as recorded in Wikidata, ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions.

Is Ceylan also a first name?

Yes. Ceylan is given as a first name too, carrying the same sense: “gazelle”.

Ceylan as a first name: meaning and statistics — turkiyenames.com →

Where do these facts come from?

  1. 1 Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)ADNKS TÜİK Nüfus İsim Portalı: En çok kullanılan soyisimler (ADNKS) accessed 8 November 2026
  2. 2 Wikimedia Wiktionary: ceylan accessed 8 November 2026
  3. 3 Wikimedia Wiktionary: *yegren accessed 8 November 2026
  4. 4 Wikimedia Foundation Wikidata: people with this family name accessed 8 November 2026
  5. 5 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Kanunu (Kanun No. 2525) accessed 8 November 2026
  6. 6 T.C. Resmî Gazete / Mevzuat Bilgi Sistemi (mevzuat.gov.tr) Soyadı Nizamnamesi (Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı 2/1759) accessed 8 November 2026
  7. 7 Natural Earth Natural Earth: Admin-1 boundaries accessed 8 November 2026
  8. 8 turkiyenames.com Türkiye İsimleri (turkiyenames.com) accessed 8 November 2026

Common questions about Ceylan

Q1

What does the surname Ceylan mean?

The ceylan is the gazelle, slender, large-eyed and very swift. The word reached Turkish from a Mongolic source, which itself goes back to Old Turkic yegren, “reddish” as a horse colour. In Turkish poetry it symbolises beauty and grace, and it is also a female given name.
Q2

What is the origin of the surname Ceylan?

The root word of Ceylan is ceylan (Mongolic): “gazelle; borrowed from a Mongolic source”.
Q3

How do you pronounce Ceylan?

Cey·lan, 2 syllables; IPA: /dʒejˈɫan/.